Agilent Technologies 4288A Programming Manual page 233

The following table shows the relationship between each bit of the status byte register of
the 4278A and the corresponding bit of the 4288A's register.
Bit
number
Differences in usage of GPIB commands
Usage of the
*SRE command
GPIB command correspondence
Table B-17 Correspondence of status register related commands
Standard event status register
Operation status register
Appendix B
Functional Comparison and GPIB Command Correspondence
4278A
(Status byte register)
Status information
0 End of measurement
1 End of analog measurement
2 Trigger ignored
3 End status
• Ε nd of compensation data measurement
• End of self-test
4 Reserved
5 Occurrence of error
6 Service request
7 Reserved
*1.This bit shows the occurrence of device dependent errors. "Trigger ignored" is one of
the device dependent errors.
No space is required between the command
and parameters.
For example, to mask bit 0, use the
command as "*SRE1".
Setup
Clear
Mask (setting the service
request enable register)
Status byte register
Reading out the register
Setting the enable register
Reading out the register
Setting the enable register
Reading out the register
Information for Replacing 4278A with 4288A
Register name
Operation status register
Operation status register
Standard event status register
Operation status register
Operation status register
—————
Standard event status register
Status byte register
—————
4278A
A space is required between the command
and parameters.
For example, to mask bit 0, use the
command as "*SRE 1".
4278A
*CLS
*SRE
*STB?
N/A
4288A
Bit
number
4
3
*1
3
7
12
—
2 to 5
6
—
4288A
GPIB command
4288A
*CLS
*SRE
*STB?
*ESR?
*ESE
:STAT:OPER:ENAB
:STAT:OPER?
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